Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin was a Soviet military commander during World War II who was responsible for many Red Army operations in the Ukrainian SSR as the commander of the Southwestern Front, and of
Vatutin ib c. the 1940s
Vatutin (2nd from right) with officers of the Northwestern Front, February 1942
The Dnieper–Carpathian offensive, also known in Soviet historical sources as the Liberation of Right-bank Ukraine, was a strategic offensive executed by the Soviet 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Ukrainian Fro
Soviet advances during the operation
The spring thaw created very muddy conditions which encumbered both armies.
Some of the destroyed German equipment following the attempt to break out from Korsun